TechShoppingCart Podcast09: Digital Wishes, Flip Video Labs, and Manifest Destiny for EdTech

Welcome to episode 9 of the Technology Shopping Cart Podcast, a podcast (and now live webcast) where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. This episode features a conversation with Heather Chirtea of ToolFactory, Vicki Allen, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer about podcasting, digital storytelling, mobile podcasting labs, mobile flip video labs, "ushering" technologies which encourage teachers to extend their journeys of learning with educational technologies further, and "manifest destiny" for educational technology use in our 21st century classrooms. Of course we also include a variety of "geek of the week" websites, resources and tips, which includes a discussion of the superb "Global Nomads" videoconferencing content providers and facilitators. Check out the podcast shownotes for links. We are tentatively scheduling our next live webcast for Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 10 am US central time to discuss challenges and pitfalls of integrating web 2.0 technologies in school districts. We're asking some special guests from Missouri to join us who are in the trenches of IT and have some interesting perspectives to share.

Show Notes:

1. Referenced links from this episode on our wiki

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Make A Digital Wish

I spoke with Heather Chirtea, Lead Staff Development Trainer from Tool Factory earlier today and she told me about a very exciting website all teachers should know about. I called Heather to tell her about involving Tool Factory in the Storychasers project. Storychasers is a multi-state educational collaborative founded by Wesley Fryer and Kevin Honeycutt that has been created to empower students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists.

I asked Heather about linking Tool Factory’s Flip Video Mobile Lab and Mobile Podcasting Lab to the Storychasers website. The Flip Video and Podcasting Mobile Labs have everything in one case for podcasting and video production for classrooms. Teachers interested in Storychasers should definitely check them out.

Our conversation turned to funding sources for technology in schools and Heather told me about Digital Wish. Digital Wish is an online community of educators sharing resources and digital lesson plans. I addition to teacher-created digital lessons, there are also fundraising for creating a technology fundraising campaign and grants resources to help teachers and schools obtain technology tools for their classrooms.

Digital Wish encourages teachers to create a profile and a wish list of needed technology products for their classrooms. Donors can then access the site looking for schools needing technology and either buying items from teacher wish lists or by donating money directly to a school. Contributing vendors include both hardware and software companies alike. So, if you are a teacher who is struggling with a dried up technology go make a digital wish. It just might come true.

Podcast08 - Screencasting for Learning

Welcome to episode eight of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This episode was recorded on August 8, 2008, and shared live over the web using Ustream.tv and Skype. Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer discuss reasons to use as well as create screencasts, places to find educationally related screencasts, and tools to use on both Windows and Macintosh platforms for screencapture and screen recording. Near the end of the webcast we were joined by Tony Vincent, an amazing educator from Omaha, Nebraska, and author of learninginhand.com. Tony shared some of his favorite screencast tools and also joined us for our closing “geek of the week” exchange. Refer to our podcast shownotes for links to the resources and websites we discuss in this show, including the Ustream chat transcript of our live webshow and Ustream archive.

Show Notes:

1. Referenced links from this episode on our wiki

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Podcast07 - iPhone Web Apps and Poll Everywhere in Education (Part 2 of 3 in our Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning

Welcome to episode seven of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This episode was recorded on July 1, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas, at the National Educational Computing Conference. Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer were joined by Brad Gessler of Poll Everywhere to discuss mobile applications for learning: Specifically Poll Everywhere and iPhone Web Apps. This is part two in our Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning podcast series. (We apologize it has taken so long to get this second part recorded and posted!) Refer to our podcast shownotes for links to the resources and websites we discuss in this show.

Show Notes:

1. Referenced links from this episode on our wiki
2. HomeWork Web App
3. JustUpdate Web App
4. Phishing (WikiPedia)
5. AntiPhishing Working Group
6. iWeather Web App
7. iPhone Web Apps
8. Poll Everywhere: Easy Audience Polling (via cell phone text messaging / SMS)
9. Poll Everywhere Mobile
10. Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 2)
11. Homepage of Brad Gessler (co-founder of Poll Everywhere)
12. Informatics (WikiPedia)
13. Gomeric Hill: Blog of Karen Montgomery
14. Thinking Machine: Presentation and Workshop Curriculum of Karen Montgomery
15. Follow Karen Montgomery on Twitter
16. Follow Wesley Fryer on Twitter
17. Top 25 Web Apps for iPhone (Rev2)
18. Top 10 iPhone Web-Apps (IntoMobile)

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Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 3)

Welcome to episode six of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer discuss the important but controversial subject of using cell phones and other mobile devices for learning in K-12 as well as university classrooms. This podcast is the first of three parts, our next episode will focus specifically on iPhones and web applications for the iPhone which are relevant for classroom learning. In this episode we address the reasons it is important to utilize cell phones for learning, including helping students learn digital etiquette with cell phones (part of digital citizenship.) Mobile devices like cell phones can be used in various ways to blend learning and extend learning beyond the traditional boundaries of the bell. Refer to our podcast shownotes for links to the resources and websites we discuss in this show.

Show Notes:

1. Follow Karen Montgomery on Twitter
2. Follow Wesley Fryer on Twitter
3. Asterpix - Interactive video (add hyperlinks to web-based movies)
4. Jott.com - Speech to digital text translation (mobile phone to your to-do lists!)
5. Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools - Liz Kolb's K12Online07 Presentation
6. Highway 40 Twitter Group (St Louis area construction updates via Jott.com to Twitter)
7. Think Mobile Phones for Learning - Karen Montgomery's wiki for cell phone use in education
8. Cell Phones for Learning - Wesley Fryer's wiki for cell phone use in education
9. Digital Etiquette from Kansas State Digital Citizenship Project
10. Teens Take Advantage of Online Privacy Tools - NPR report from 3 April 2008
11. NPR Technology Podcast
12. Tips for avoiding identity theft
13. Mogreet The Vote (Send a personal video message to the US Presidential candidates - Warning: Look a the terms and be aware of commercial charges!)
14. Project K-Nect by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
15. Gabcast - Record by phone straight to the web and a podcast channel
16. Gcast - Record by phone straight to the web and a podcast channel
17. The Story of Richard Ivie (Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital story recorded in part with Gcast)
18. Echo360 - scalable coursecasting solution
19. Podcast Producer (publish audio podcasts, video podcasts, screencasts, or upload files to Mac OS X server and "publish at will" within a subscribable web feed)
20. Speaking of History: Eric Langhorst's blog and podcast (US History teacher and 2008 Missouri state teacher of the year, Eric models use of "studycasts" for students)
21. Kevin Honeycutt's website and blog
22. VoiceThread commenting via a phone call
23. PollEverywhere - SMS text message polling
24. .mobi article on WikiPedia (domain name for mobile compatible websites)
25. Winksite: Build a website compatible with mobile devices / mobile phones
26. Vanderbilt website for iPhone
27. Rave Wireless Campus - applications for university students, faculty and administrors for mobile phones
28. Mobile Learning website from Abilene Christian University (includes link to their movie, "Connected")
29. Convergence and the 21st-Century Classroom (from Abilene Christian University)
30. Mobile Campus - opt-in features for university students

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Podcast05 - Digital Citizenship and an Interview with Kristine of PBWiki

Welcome to episode five of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Kristine of PBwiki. PBwiki is one of our favorite web 2.0 sites for creating collaborative wiki documents with teachers and students. After sharing our geeks of the week, we discussed digital citizenship and the ways teachers in different places are helping students as well as educators connect 21st century skills with digital citizenship skills including Internet safety, safe online collaboration, and netiquette. It is helpful to situate conversations about Internet safety within a broader discussion of digital citizenship, and insure the constructive and positive uses of collaborative digital technologies are also highlighted.

Show Notes:

1. PollEverywhere
2. Diigo
3. 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
4. LeFora Forums
5. PBwiki
6. PBwiki for Educators
7. Free webinar 22 April 2008: Keeping Students Safe Online (from PBwiki)
8. "You don't know what you like, you like what you know" - Dr. Tim Tyson’s Keynote: Moving from Personal Knowledge to Global Contribution (from Bob Sprankle at Bit by Bit - also check out Dr. Tyson's blog)
9. MogoPop
10. 123VC: The JAZZING Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing
11. WikiTextBook: An online textbook for Educators Learning about Technology
12. Follow us on Twitter: Kristine from PBwiki, Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen, Wesley Fryer

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Podcast04: An Interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell (Co-Founders of VoiceThread) Discussing the new VoiceThre

Welcome to episode four of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell, the co-Founders of the VoiceThread website and web 2.0 tool. Steve and Ben discuss the background for how VoiceThread started, design principles of simplicity and “the amazon.com model” of task completion in a few clicks, their implementation of layered complexity within their site’s functionality, and the benefits of creating living multimedia documents via VoiceThread which can live forever. They also discuss the brand new website “VoiceThread for Education,” which is customized with several changes that make it a thoroughly accountable environment safe for student publishing and interactive feedback. Their hope is that more school districts, students and teachers will now be able to benefit from as well as enjoy using VoiceThread as a learning tool inside and outside their classrooms on a regular basis.

Show Notes:

1. Twitter Karma (view and manage Twitter followers and friends)
2. Sue Waters’ blog: Mobile Technology in TAFE
3. Jott (free voice to text service)
4. Google Alerts
5. TED Talks
6. VoiceThread for Education (ed.voicethread.com)
7. VoiceThread (original site, unchanged with free, unlimited educator accounts)
8. Steve and Ben’s Interview on EdTechTalk - Teachers Teaching Teachers #86 Giving All Schools Access to VoiceThread-A Conversation with Ben Papelle and Steve Muth-01.09.08
9. Our Technology Shopping Cart Podcast Wiki

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